Chapter 9 – The sweetest breakfast

Once Silver recovered from the forced dimensional warp, still thinking of Sonic's words, he focused on Shadow's house across the field. Something was wrong… there was smoke coming out the kitchen's window.

-"What's that? No… Shadow!" Silver tried to use his powers to fly but his body was already at its limit. He run instead, the best he could. "What if the house is catching fire? Shadow can't run, he may faint and asphyxiate with the smoke! He could get burnt! SHADOW!!"

From the inside, Shadow saw a panicking Silver slam the door open.

-"ARE YOU ALL RIGHT?! WHERE'S THE FIRE??!!"

-"Silver, I'm here. I just burnt my toasts. Calm down."

-"What?? Oh… no injuries then? No… fire?... oh." Silver stood there panting and lowered his head, ashamed.

-"I guess I'm not cut out to prepare some simple breakfast after all." - Said Shadow. He smiled at the run down hedgehog. - "Where have you been? Seems like you just defeated a whole division of Eggman's robots by yourself."

-"I… Sonic asked for my help this morning… there were this hurt people trapped under a huge boulder and… they needed my help to set them free and unharmed…"

-"I see, you were being a hero then."

- "Anyone would've done the same… I had to use almost all my power, but they're safe now, thankfully. Wait, you're downstairs again?"

-"I was hungry…"

-"Oh, I see… …uh, sorry about that…"

-"You don't have to be sorry, you were at the right place to be. And I've been careful."

-"I'll… I'll help you with that…" Silver put aside the burnt toaster and bread and started cleaning the mess Shadow did with the coffeemaker. He then heard a little gasp followed by Shadow sitting on a nearby chair. He dropped what he was doing.

-"Would you like me to help you go upstairs again? I'll bring you breakfast in a minute…"

Shadow smiled at him.

-"… If that's not a problem."

-"Ok, I'll just uh… right, no psychokinetic power left… hm…" - Blushing, he walked over to Shadow's side and offered him his hand. – "Guess we're doing it the old way?"

Shadow stood up and put his hand on Silver's opposite shoulder letting the white hedgehog hold him by the waist. As they reached the lasts steps in the stairs, Shadow spoke in a low voice.

-"You really are a hero. My savior." He then kissed Silver's cheek. Making him stumble and almost trip, of course.

-"Sh- Shadow!" pleaded a blushing Silver.

-"Yes?" The dark hedgehog was smiling.

-"N-nothing… you'll make us fall…"

-"I'm sorry that I couldn't resist."

Once they reached the bed they both sat so that Shadow could lie, but before he did Silver decided to put something that had been bothering him into words.

-"Shadow… does… does all this mean we…? We are…"

-"… It can mean whatever you want it to mean. It only means one thing for me. I want you to stay by my side." – These words just made Silver even more nervous. Or was it excited? Either way, his heart beat fast.

-"It's… it's not like you to say that. Why me?"

-"You… you are nothing like me… you shed some light to my dull and dark existence. But we do have something in common. You know my pain. That's why I feel I can open myself to you."

-"Shadow…"

-"Silver… Kiss me again…"

Without doubting Silver leaned in for his second kiss. Shadow knew now that he had won Silver's trust. The younger hedgehog had placed his bet and wasn't going back on his actions. This time the silvery hedgehog closed his eyes and held Shadow in his arms timidly while the other did the same. Shadow caressed Silver's back in a slow motion and his kisses became slightly more demanding and warm, Silver just followed, trying to keep up. Was it always going to feel this good? He surely hoped so. He felt both safe and dominated in Shadow's arms, and this made his body all hot and… receptive? …All he knew is that he wanted more of these new sensations. Still taking the lead, Silver experimented parting his lips, slightly shuddering in the inside with the natural fear of that which is unknown, beyond of one's control. Shadow didn't think it twice when he slid his tongue through trembling lips. Silver soon found out that making out wasn't as he had expected… at all.

Hmmm… this is strange… and wet… and slippery… so this is what kissing is about?

He had thought it would be more… forceful and… tasty? But this was more like a hot and humid, intimate caress … Shadow was being careful after all… or at least, that was the conclusion Silver reached. He decided to let his mind rest, stop analyzing so much, and concentrated on feeling instead. Entangled as he was with Shadow, he let his weight fall onto the bed, so he was lying on his back. Shadow followed bending over the white hedgehog, still kissing him deeply. After some moments of quills and fur caressing and deep-kissing, the black hedgehog decided to end the round with a mischievous soft bite on Silver's lower lip before lifting back to a sitting position. This made the silver-like hedgehog feel a hot and quick spark-like sensation somewhere in between his legs…

Too shy to even speak he just let a timid moan escape his throat, enough for Shadow to realize his move had served its purpose.

This kissing thing has potential… oh god, that was hot…

Unable to say a word out of nervousness Silver just smiled shyly at Shadow. He was blushing hard now, resting his weight on his forearms after starting to lift himself up. And to top it off, his fur was in a mess. The cuteness was too much even for someone like the Ultimate Life Form, but it wasn't in his script to glomp people, so he just smirked sexily at him.

- "How do you feel?"

- "I… that was incredible… that was… the first time for me…"

Of course Shadow knew. He'd been so passive and soft that he was practically begging for an instruction book. And the way he shivered with that last bite… Geez, it exuded virginity.

- "Was it, really? You felt so good to me that I couldn't have told…" He tickled Silver's tummy making him laugh and fall back again on his back. Taking advantage of the situation, Shadow leaned forward and kissed Silver again. This time his hands grabbed hold of the other's shoulders and the kiss soon deepened, with Shadow's torso's weight on top of Silver's. If it hadn't been for the injured leg, he would've been all over Silver by then. The kissing was rougher this time, Shadow wouldn't let Silver take a breath, and his hands traded their subject of caressing from quills to flanks. Silver felt dizzy and overwhelmed all of a sudden. He wasn't sure of what was happening until he felt a hot breath on his chest and gloved fingers sliding across his thighs. This was far too much more than he had expected, this… he couldn't handle.

-"W-wait… Shadow… STOP!! ….please!"

Shadow 'surfaced' and looked up.

-"What's wrong? Am I hurting you?"

-"No… but please, let's stop for now… this… this is too much for me right now… I'm confused…" His blush now had a different origin. He looked away with shame. "I'm... sorry…"

Shadow sighed and smiled with eyes closed.

-"All right, there's no need to push ourselves any further for now… After all, this is your first time doing these things…"

He let himself lie on the bed and looked up to a now sitting Silver.

-"Are you mad at me?"

-"Don't be ridiculous. There's no way I could get mad at you with you acting all attractive all of a sudden. It's only natural I feel the…" - 'Urge to eat you up' was the kind of thing he couldn't tell Silver right now. That would scare him even more. Make him run away. Unwanted. - "…need to make you feel good."

-"I… am acting all attractive?" That brought the smile back to Silver's face.

-"You are… you sure know how to seduce me." He smiled, looking at Silver through half lidded eyes. He had spoken the truth. Nothing more.

-"Shadow…"

-"Please kiss me again... just a peck… before you go downstairs and leave me on my own?"

-"Oh, right, breakfast!! I forgot I haven't-.." – he stood up like a spring because of the nervousness before thinking of what Shadow had asked. – "Ah… of course… Mmmwah. Be right back!" And with that last smooch he quickly went downstairs.

Suddenly all the tiredness from that morning seemed to have washed away. Only seemed, for he still wasn't ready to make use of his powers, but that clearly didn't bother him. His mind was home to a whirlwind of intelligible thoughts as he prepared breakfast in a kind of automatic mode. He didn't know whether to run, cry, scream, jump, laugh, hide, or dance… so he decided that for the moment he would do something his body had been craving for since the incident earlier that morning, and he just realized when the sweet smell reached his nostrils: He'd have something substantial to eat.